This is an enormously complex and appealing Merlot that’s offering its best fruit now and for the next three or four years. It’s fresh and lively in oak-enhanced blackberry jam, cassis, blueberry, licorice, mushu plum sauce and coffee flavors that last for a full minute into the finish. Shows the elegant balance and finesse of a great Napa red. ——S.H.(3/1/2007)—— 91